Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.

Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex, the BBC has found. Groups of men, women and children have been filmed collecting large quantities ...

The local council has warned that eating shellfish from the River Adur could make people very ill Illegal cockle picking has been taking place on a large scale at a protected site in West Sussex ...

Last summer I went "on the sands" with a bunch of licensed cockle pickers (many of them fourth or fifth generation) in south Wales. The tools are much the same as they were in Roman times ...

Eighteen cockle pickers have died after becoming trapped by rising tides in Lancashire's Morecambe Bay. The accident happened after more than 30 cocklers - thought to be Chinese who do not speak ...

A cockle-picker died after collapsing off the Wirral coastline this morning. The 59-year-old was pronounced dead despite a massive rescue effort involving police, ambulances, the coastguard and ...

22 of the 23 victims of the Morecambe Bay cockling disaster - The final victim's picture was never released. It has been 20 years since 23 Chinese cockle pickers drowned when they were cut off by ...

"Police told one family to put everything back but the cockle-pickers simply move to another beach. "I used to take my son cockling when he was young but we only had a bucket and we cleaned them ...

Local artist Micheal McKeown says he didn't have to search too hard for inspiration when he won a commission to create a piece of public artwork for the promenade in Blackrock. Cockle picking has ...

Illegal cockle picking and over-harvesting in 2014 are some of the factors being blamed for the move. Currently, 53 licences for commercial cockle picking on the estuary are issued every year.